ENVIRONMENT

(Redirected from Environments)

'Environment' may refer to:

★ 'Environment', the external conditions, resources, stimuli etc. with which an organism interacts

★ Natural environment, all living and non-living things that occur naturally on Earth

★ Built environment, constructed surroundings that provide the setting for human activity, ranging from the large-scale civic surroundings to the personal places

★ Environmental science, the study of the interactions among the physical, chemical and biological components of the environment

★ Environmentalism, a concern with the preservation of the natural environment

★ Social environment, the culture that an individual lives in, and the people and institutions with whom they interact
In 'computing':

★ environment variable, the set of environments defined in a process

★ Runtime environment, a virtual machine state which provides software services for processes or programs while a computer is running

★ Integrated development environment, a type of computer software that assists computer programmers in developing software

★ Desktop environment, in computing, is graphical user interface to the computer